Rob Baker’s Reviews > The Buffalo Hunter Hunter > Status Update

"We don't chose the shape or meter of our struggles, however. Our duty, insofar as an aging pastor can tell, is to simply endure them, and, when and if opporunity arises, overcome them" (128).

I never thought of a vampire as a Christ figure before, but there are parallels...rising from the dead, sacrificial drinking of blood, etc...

"And I heard or felt or knew the soft foot parts of my swift-runner hopping away from me once and for all, so I would never know what direction to go anymore, would have to figure each step out on my own from here on out" (102).

"It was a good plan, and I think it would have worked.

Except for what I did" (55).

"'Who told you about it?' I asked.

'Doesn't matter,' Peasy said back, which I knew meant that it did matter" (44).

"The depravity of man's heart knows no floor, and everyone in this hard country has a sordid chapter in the story of their life, that they're trying either to atone for, or stay ahead of" (13-14)

"Men on in their years, whose sole job is to occupy a bench, like to feel important, I know. It's quite possible I suffer from a liturgical version of this myself" (13).